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In the early sixteen-hundreds, Spain responded to a century of failed military incursions in North Africa by expelling the moriscos from Spanish soil and by writing and staging comedias commemorating its few and often ephemeral victories. Two of these dramatic works deal with the corsair Jered n Barbarroja, the great obstacle to Spanish domination of the Mediterranean, who preyed on Spanish shipping, thereby threatening the economy, transported beleaguered moriscos from its eastern shore to a safe haven in North Africa, and sailed up and down the coast from Barcelona to Cartagena, kidnapping the residents of small villages and large cities to enslave and hold them for ransom. The two plays are included in Doce comedias de varios autores, printed in Tortosa by Francisco Mutorell sic] in 1638. The author of the two plays is listed as one Juan S nchez. - from the Introduction.

Constance H. Rose introduces and annotates "Two Golden Age Comedias Featuring the Muslim Corsair Barbarroja: El cerco de T nez y ganada de La Goleta por el Emperador Carlos Quinto and Segunda parte del cosario Barbarroja y el] hu rfano desterrado," by Juan S nchez. This edition is number 89 in the Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs Ediciones cr ticas series.